There's still one I would recommend for the single-player: Spec Ops: The Line.

It does a pretty good job of calling out your standard modern shooter tropes and can make you feel like a remorseless dick by the end.

Borderlands 2 does a pretty good job of not being 24/7 brown blah too. That and I much prefer co-op to competitive games these days. Constant stat tracking seems to make people take their games way to seriously these days. Oh look, I've just been called a name again, only the 178th time this hour.

/3 Marines deciding whether the AR-15 is better than the AK-47 stop long enough to complain that the Marine Corp doesn't teach Kentucky Windage anymore and that females always place higher in marksmanship than males do.

There's still one I would recommend for the single-player: Spec Ops: The Line.

It does a pretty good job of calling out your standard modern shooter tropes and can make you feel like a remorseless dick by the end.

Borderlands 2 does a pretty good job of not being 24/7 brown blah too. That and I much prefer co-op to competitive games these days. Constant stat tracking seems to make people take their games way to seriously these days. Oh look, I've just been called a name again, only the 178th time this hour.

Borderlands 2 is one of my favorite games. It is not a Modern Brown Shooter. It takes place far in the future and is not brown.

I've really tried to get into CoD. I've played most of the games, and they are just absolutely terrible to me compared to Halo, especially on a competitive basis. I know Halo has pulled a lot of the Call of Duty stuff into the game but it's still like 400 times more playable to me than CoD. Most of the time I play CoD I'm struggling to understand how some camper on the killcam shot me through a wall from 100 feet away.

Really liking Halo 4 right now, although H2/H3 were really the apex of the series.

bdub77:I've really tried to get into CoD. I've played most of the games, and they are just absolutely terrible to me compared to Halo, especially on a competitive basis. I know Halo has pulled a lot of the Call of Duty stuff into the game but it's still like 400 times more playable to me than CoD. Most of the time I play CoD I'm struggling to understand how some camper on the killcam shot me through a wall from 100 feet away.

Really liking Halo 4 right now, although H2/H3 were really the apex of the series.

Halo 4 pissed me off for one main reason. They nerfed the Forge. I spent a majority of my Halo: Reach time on Forge mode just building random maps. I made a badass go-cart one my friends and I would play for hours. Made another one that was a golf course. They removed the Forge World, so you were basically stuck with the standard maps everyone played anyway but you could add some objects or vehicles if you wanted.

Other than that, yea I've had fun with Halo 4. Specifically Grifball. Nothing like finding a team that actually knows how to work together and dominating for a while.